#unity

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#community #great #museum #rapport #whitney

Since I was a small girl, I have lived inside this cottage, shelted by its roof and walls. I have known of people suffering—I have not been blind to them in the way that privilege allows, the way my own husband and now my daughter are blind. It is a statement of fact and not a judgement to say Charlie and Ella’s minds aren’t oriented in that direction; in a way, it absolves them, whereas the unlucky have knocked on the door of my consciousness, they have emerged from the forest and knocked many times over the course of my life, and I have only occasionally allowed them entry. I’ve done more than nothing and much less than I could have. I have laid inside, beneath a quilt on a comfortable couch, in a kind of reverie, and when I heard the unlucky outside my cottage, sometimes I passed them coins or scraps of food, and sometimes I ignored them altogether; if I ignored them, they had no choice but to walk back into the woods, and when they grew weak or got lost or were circled by wolves, I pretended I couldn’t hear them calling my name. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#empathy #ethics #politics #food

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#enemy #friend #him #into #know

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cell #cells #chicken #conditions #different

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game. ↗

— Tina Thompson

#game #had #i #i think #motivation

Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it. ↗

— Carrot Top

#games #getting #more #more people #opportunity

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#any #careful #church #constitute #dead

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #hands #himself

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #fighters #first

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#away #begins #community #ends #into